Awards Season/Oscars 2020

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Anthony Hopkins getting rave reviews for The Father. People are saying he's a shoo in for the Oscar next year. Ironbark and The Glorias the first Oscar bait movies of the year. Carey Mulligan getting great reviews for Promising Young Women also.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always has a 100% rating on RT but the subject matter about a young woman travelling to New York for an abortion may not appeal to film audiences. Carrie **** getting Oscar buzz for The Nest also.

A lot of careers don't seem to go anywhere after an Oscar win, or burn out quite quickly. Unless they are already very highly established anyway.

Cuba Holding Jr for example.

A contender for the strangest one must be Adrien Brody doing the terrible Dario Argento horror film Giallo after winning best actor.

Hilary Swank has made some utter shit after winning.

She also did shite before winning
90210 anyone

What's wrong with 90210? If you like that sort of thing. At least the night soaps of that era weren't pretentious crap pretending desperately to be taken seriously like some shows today *cough* Riverdale *cough*

90210 was on it's last legs when Hilary was in it imo Dee.

It was a great show while Shannon and Luke were in it.

Personally I was more of a Melrose place fan

Hilary was superb in boys don't cry. I prefer that to million dollar baby.

Unlikely- all be it not impossible- it's remembered at awards time, having been out since 24th July.

Did GBH not come out in the spring? Didn’t harm it’s chances....

I fancy it for production design based on the trailer

Yes March 2014 which I posted above. So it's not entirely unlikely to get Oscar noms next year if it's received well and gets Oscar buzz.

Sorry was just skimming the thread and didn’t see it! If it’s a good enough film it’ll get in. Hollywood Foreign Press are gonna love this for obvious reasons so I guess a strong showing at the globes is a strong possibility if nothing else!

Indeed. I don't think it matters anymore when a film is released. If it's received well by critics and audiences and gets Oscar buzz then that's all that matters. Even Parasite premiered at Cannes in May last year and opened in South Korea in May, Australia and New Zealand in June, Russia in July and US and Canada in October. So by the time it got to the US, the Oscar buzz was already there.

I'm not sure that's the best example. It was talked about as a strong candidate and potential winner of Best Film not in the English language, and it's arguably only because it was being considered for and did get those nominations across awards season that forced enough voters to watch it late in the year for it to be given serious consideration for best film too.

I'd love it if it could become a thing that genuine Oscar contenders were released well in advance of nominations, but it seems that studios and film-makers see the awards shows and talk of nominations as more of a means of marketing those films still on general release than a pat on the back for a job well done, and something to put on the DVDs.

Anthony Hopkins getting rave reviews for The Father. People are saying he's a shoo in for the Oscar next year. Ironbark and The Glorias the first Oscar bait movies of the year. Carey Mulligan getting great reviews for Promising Young Women also.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always has a 100% rating on RT but the subject matter about a young woman travelling to New York for an abortion may not appeal to film audiences. Carrie **** getting Oscar buzz for The Nest also.

Never Rarely only has 33 reviews on RT though.

Problem with opening in March is it needs to be a hit in March. If any of those films limp to $10M domestic box office they are dead in awards consideration. Even if they do okay, there are numerous films like Booksmart that are raved about in spring & forgotten by October.

Saw Dark Waters this evening, one of the awards season contenders that could have been. Great performance by Ruffalo, and some great directorial touches by Haynes, whose love for the colour yellow remains undimmed! Funny how some films pop and others don’t awards season!

Saw Dark Waters this evening, one of the awards season contenders that could have been. Great performance by Ruffalo, and some great directorial touches by Haynes, whose love for the colour yellow remains undimmed! Funny how some films pop and others don’t awards season!

I guess it comes down to campaigning? I don't know if there was one for Dark Waters. I remember The Report being another film which had early oscar buzz which went nowhere. I wonder if Marriage Story had not been released that same year, would Driver have campaigned for that film?

I like Mark Ruffalo. Definitely an actor imo I think is due an oscar in the near future.

A lot of careers don't seem to go anywhere after an Oscar win, or burn out quite quickly. Unless they are already very highly established anyway.

Cuba Holding Jr for example.

A contender for the strangest one must be Adrien Brody doing the terrible Dario Argento horror film Giallo after winning best actor.

Hilary Swank has made some utter shit after winning.

She also did shite before winning
90210 anyone

What's wrong with 90210? If you like that sort of thing. At least the night soaps of that era weren't pretentious crap pretending desperately to be taken seriously like some shows today *cough* Riverdale *cough*

90210 was on it's last legs when Hilary was in it imo Dee.

It was a great show while Shannon and Luke were in it.

Personally I was more of a Melrose place fan

Hilary was superb in boys don't cry. I prefer that to million dollar baby.

Melrose had the best theme song. I used to be able to play it in my youth.